A/RES/59/296 XIX Air operations Recalling section B of its resolution 59/288, 1. Requests the Secretary-General to take all necessary actions to ensure that staff members involved in air operations are adequately trained, as specified in the Air Operations Manual; Also requests the Secretary-General to continue to conduct aviation 2. quality inspections and aviation assessments at missions to confirm that established standards are being fully complied with; Further requests the Secretary-General to improve the formulation of 3. resource requirements for air operations in budget submissions to make them more reflective of actual operations, bearing in mind the overbudgeting of air transportation requirements in some peacekeeping operations; Requests the Secretary-General to undertake an analysis of the impact of 4. the new costing structure relating to air operations, bearing in mind the relevant observations and recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and the Board of Auditors, and to report thereon in the context of his next overview report; XX Ground transportation 1. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the General Assembly with a cost-benefit analysis on the issue of the transfer of vehicles with high mileage to the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy, to other missions and to upcoming missions, taking into account the cost of freight, and to report thereon to the Assembly at its sixtieth session; Also requests the Secretary-General, in the context of his overview 2. report, to provide detailed information on the implementation of the vehicle policy, as requested in paragraph 86 of the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;1 3. Further requests the Secretary-General to develop a standard policy with regard to the purchase and assignment of standard civilian and specially equipped armoured vehicles, as well as representational vehicles; XXI Ratios of vehicles and information technology equipment to staff 1. Notes with concern the lack of information on the implementation of ratios of vehicles to staff and discrepancies in the implementation of standard ratios; 2. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that peacekeeping operations adhere to the standard ratios, bearing in mind the mandate, complexities and size of individual peacekeeping operations; Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure that in all missions the 3. actual ratio of heavy/medium vehicles is no greater than the established standard ratio of 1:1 and to justify any departure from this standard ratio; 14